HOSPITAL AT SALONIKA

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7710, 20 April 1916, Page 1

HOSPITAL AT SALONIKA

TWICE DESTROYED. A Salonika correspondent, writing under date February 12th, says:— “The New Zealand hospital here, under the control of Colonel McGavin, has been peculiarly unlucky. You will remember that the staff was aboard the Marquette, torpedoed in the Gulf of Salonika, losing a number of nurses. All their kit went down with the ship. A complete new outfit arrived in the harbor for them last week, much to tlieir delight, as the supplies that they had been able to draw from ordnance were rather inadequate. Before the boat could get a berth to discharge she caught afire, and every stick of the New Zealand equipment was destroyed. The holocaust included about £SO worth of luxuries, for which the men had personally subscribed. This is a most unfortunate chapter of accidents. No clue to the origin of the fire has y'et been disclosed.” News has been received by mail of the destruction by fire of an entire shipment of 32 cases of Red Cross goods from the Canterbury-Westland branch of the Red Cross. The fire took place in the ship’s hold on the night of her arrival in the harbor at Salonika. The value of the shipment was close on £ISOO.